$75B budget deal | Rangel lead | Teacher evaluations

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council have reached a $75 billion budget deal that includes more police on the streets and billions for raises for city workers. U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel has a 13-point lead going into Tuesday's Democratic primary in Harlem. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders reached an agreement that allows teachers rated poorly in the new Common Core ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council reached a $75 billion budget deal, the first of the new mayoral administration and of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s tenure. The agreement does not include a property-tax rate increase, but does have billions of dollars to cover expected raises for municipal workers. It also puts 200 more police officers on the streets. [Crain’s New York Business]

Despite a heated campaign and a close finish in 2012, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel appears headed to a wide victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Harlem. A new Siena College poll gives the incumbent a 13-point lead over his nearest challenger, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who lost to Mr. Rangel by about 1,000 votes in the 2012 primary. [The Wall Street Journal]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders reached a pact that allows teachers rated “ineffective” or “developing,” based on a new evaluation system using Common Core test scores, to instead get two ratings: one calculation under the new system and one that excludes the test scores. The measure expires after the 2014-15 school year, however. [The Wall Street Journal]

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Plus: A number of New York City public schools will be moving up their start times this coming academic year, thanks to changes in the teachers’ union contract. [The New York Times]

The New York Police Department and programs such as Crime Stoppers have paid at least $18 million in the past six years for leads in criminal cases. Police paid confidential informants $16.5 million of that pot, with an additional $1.7 million going toward public reward programs. [The New York Times]

Plus: The FBI and the NYPD have formed a financial cybercrime task force, modeled on an earlier anti-terrorism partnership, to go after computer hackers. [Crain’s New York Business]

Also: The five men wrongfully convicted of the rape and assault of a Central Park jogger in 1989 have settled with the city for about $40 million. [The New York Times]

Interfaith Medical Center is sorting its affairs after emerging from bankruptcy with $40 million from the state for its short-term survival and a lease for its property. The Brooklyn hospital is figuring out which network it will belong to in the new Medicaid payment systems. [Crain’s Health Pulse]

In a bid to boost morale amid personnel changes and layoffs, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office has given nearly 400 assistant DAs, or about 80% of its lawyers, a raise of at least 4%. Most of the pay hikes went to junior assistants, who have not had a raise in about five years. [Daily News]

A partnership of Thor Equities, General Growth Properties and RXR Realty bought the 26-story, 500,000-square-foot office building at 530 Fifth Ave. for $595 million. The building, two blocks from Grand Central Terminal, between East 44th and East 45th streets, last sold as recently as January 2012, for $390 million. [Crain’s New York Business]

Plus: Gym chains Crunch, Planet Fitness and New York Sports Club all plan to open locations soon in the north Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. [DNAinfo]

The Daily News is raising the price of its weekday version from 75 cents to $1.25 for the New York City area, starting next week. The Saturday edition will increase from a buck to $1.50. It’s not clear if its archrival, the New York Post, will hike its own 75-cent weekday price in response. [Capital New York]

Governors Island now has its first drinkable tap water since the 172-acre spit in New York Harbor opened as a public greenspace in 2005. Two drinking fountains can be found at Liggett Terrace, with additional spouts expected to come online elsewhere this summer. Before the tap water, it was bottles or nothing for visitors. [Daily News]